PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 55 – with Dora García

Name: PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) Session 55 – with Dora García
Start: 2025-02-12T05:30:00+01:00
Location: Rådhusgata 19 (Anatomigården), 0158 Oslo, Norway

Schedule

Wed, 12 Feb, 2025 at 05:30 am

UTC+01:00

Location

Rådhusgata 19 (Anatomigården), 0158 Oslo, Norway | Oslo, OS

PRAKSIS Development Forum (PDF) is a monthly peer-discussion group for creative people. It offers a friendly, informal hub for practitioners to meet, share and discuss works in progress. There are spaces for up to four people to sign up to gain feedback on the current work.
Participation in PDF is free. The event will be conducted in English.
In PDF event 55, artist DORA GARCÍA will share and discuss her ongoing long-term research and film project End (58 prologues). The project highlights the poignance of beginnings and endings, and draws on cultural, philosophical and real-life influences to ponder pressing concerns of our time. To date, García has completed three of the 58 prologues, and this year she aims to complete four more, each with a different focus: on Asja Lācis, the Latvian theatre maker and educator who inspired Walter Benjamin’s views on Marxism; on Carla Lonzi, the Italian art critic and feminist activist; on the role of end-of-life companions, and on Arctic myths of creation and collapse.
This PDF event is of particular relevance to artists working with narrative, language, and politicised subject matter.
BOOK YOUR PLACE
Applications are warmly invited both from those who’d like to present and discuss works in progress, and from those who’d simply like to contribute to the discussion and learn about the PDF format. Booking is essential. *To reserve a place please email [email protected]*
PDF STRUCTURE
Each presenting participant has about 30 minutes to share and discuss their work in progress. PDF’s focus is on development rather than reviewing outcomes, so please do not bring finished works or projects to the table. To help us stick to our schedule, please select a single work or self-contained project for presentation.
PRACTICALITIES
Works in progress can be shared by bringing in physical works as well as presenting a slideshow, reading or performance, or adopting any other suitable communication strategy. A projector and laptop will be made available. PDF encourages variety and experimentation, so please get in touch if you have questions about the format or special requirements.
MORE ABOUT DORA GARCÍA
Originally from Spain, artist and teacher Dora García has studied and practiced internationally and now lives and works in Oslo. Involving extensive documentary research, her practice ranges across writing, film, installation and performance and seeks to sculpt and arrange knowledge as a material in its own right. It delves into complex topics such as the history of the irrational, subconscious mind, and has probed the work and ideas of various canonical literary figures, including Robert Walser, Antonin Artaud and James Joyce. Her projects foreground questions of community and individuality in contemporary society, pay homage to eccentric characters and antiheroes, and explore the political potential of marginal positions.
García has participated in numerous international art exhibitions including Münster Sculpture Projects (2007), Venice Biennale (2011, 2013, 2015), Biennale of Sydney (2008), São Paulo Biennial (2010), dOCUMENTA 13 (2012), Gwangju Biennale (2016), osloBIENNALEN (2019), Art Encounters Biennial, Romania (2019), and Aichi Triennale, Japan (2019).
MORE ABOUT PDF
PDF’s monthly events offer a constructive space for artists, curators and writers to share and discuss their current practice. Its goal is to enable cultural practitioners to learn what other creatives are up to, speak about their own work and share their perspectives. It is open to individuals at all career stages and every participant’s contribution to the group is valued.
SUPPORT PDF
PDF is only partly funded by the Norwegian Arts Council. As with all of PRAKSIS’s activity, we intend to keep it free and open to all. If you’ve enjoyed taking part in PDF or have benefitted from some other feature of PRAKSIS’s programmes, please consider supporting us via www.patreon.com/praksisoslo. Every small contribution - for instance, the cost of a cup of coffee a month - helps us keep our programmes going.
ABOUT PRAKSIS
PRAKSIS is a non-profit arts catalyst that fosters creative practice and knowledge production through collective activity and the exchange of ideas, skills and information. PRAKSIS seeks to establish dialogue between artists, thinkers and organisations locally and internationally, at all career stages, and across diverse cultures and disciplines.
Image: Dora García – End (three prologues), 2024, 33'48''